The Enchanted Wilderness guidebook
Sightseeing
Lopwell Dam
Watery LaneLovely walk to Lowell dam from the Beehive.
Come and visit an historic river port built to support the mines and see a working village, mine, and craft center. Activities include making your own chocolate lolly, making your own bread roll, dressing up like a Victorian, experiencing being a child in a Victorian classroom, trying rope making, and learning to pan for gold. Extra: Ride the mine train to explore the copper mine.
Distance from cottage: 12 minute drive, 2 hour walk.
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Morwellham Quay
Come and visit an historic river port built to support the mines and see a working village, mine, and craft center. Activities include making your own chocolate lolly, making your own bread roll, dressing up like a Victorian, experiencing being a child in a Victorian classroom, trying rope making, and learning to pan for gold. Extra: Ride the mine train to explore the copper mine.
Distance from cottage: 12 minute drive, 2 hour walk.
A walled garden set around 16th century vicarage ruins. 10-acre garden with onsite nursery and tearoom. Includes a garden trail and secret pathways. Open every day until 3 November the Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays in the winter.
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The Garden House
Pound RoadA walled garden set around 16th century vicarage ruins. 10-acre garden with onsite nursery and tearoom. Includes a garden trail and secret pathways. Open every day until 3 November the Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays in the winter.
See a 700 year old abbey and estate. Originally built as a Cistercian monastery in Medieval England, it was later used as a house and home by Sir Roger Grenville, and then used by Sir Francis Drake the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe. You can visit the abbey, explore the estate, and relax in the garden.
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Buckland Abbey
See a 700 year old abbey and estate. Originally built as a Cistercian monastery in Medieval England, it was later used as a house and home by Sir Roger Grenville, and then used by Sir Francis Drake the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe. You can visit the abbey, explore the estate, and relax in the garden.
Sanctuary with donkeys, goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits & guinea pigs to feed & pet.
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The Tamar Valley Donkey Park
Sanctuary with donkeys, goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits & guinea pigs to feed & pet.
Neighbourhoods
Kit Hill & Kit Hill Country Park
Hill with a scenic view, rich mining history, and site of historic battle in 838 between the Cornish, Vikings, and West Saxons, resulting in a West Saxon victory. It is in the same area as Kit Hill Country Park described below.
Mountain with a great view. It is 334 meters tall. “Kit” comes from old English for “Kite”, a reference to birds of prey which can still be seen on the hill. It is the highest point on the Tamar Valley AONB. It was formed by the intrusion of magma onto sedimentary rock. It is the highest point of Hingston Down, and the Kit Hill Country Park has lots of wildlife including deer and badgers, rabbits, rare moths and butterflies.
Hingston Down Quarry
Kit Hill & Kit Hill Country Park
Hill with a scenic view, rich mining history, and site of historic battle in 838 between the Cornish, Vikings, and West Saxons, resulting in a West Saxon victory. It is in the same area as Kit Hill Country Park described below.
Mountain with a great view. It is 334 meters tall. “Kit” comes from old English for “Kite”, a reference to birds of prey which can still be seen on the hill. It is the highest point on the Tamar Valley AONB. It was formed by the intrusion of magma onto sedimentary rock. It is the highest point of Hingston Down, and the Kit Hill Country Park has lots of wildlife including deer and badgers, rabbits, rare moths and butterflies.